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A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.